Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 2 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 3 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 4 | Steven threw in lots of baseball , and tinkle-plunk John Williams soundtrack , and finished it off with one enormous Big Hug . |
| 5 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |
| 6 | It certainly relit an old flame of interest within me , and sent me off in two different directions at once . |
| 7 | And sent him off to distant jungles . |
| 8 | One federation of vegetable producers packed a small basket with all the Ingredients for a seasonal recipe featuring their own vegetables and sent it off to leading cookery writers on the national and regional dailies . |
| 9 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |